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 **Dialectic.** By dialectic the authors Lankshear and Knobel mean “a kind of transcendence, in which two forces that exist in tension with one another ‘work out their differences’, as it were, and evolve into something that bears the stamp of both, yet is qualitatively different from each of them. The authors use this to describe the ‘new’ literacies that are related to an emerging and evolving mindset.  **Digital Divide.** A claim by Rheingold (2002) that by around 2012 a new kind of digital divide will separate those who know how to use the new media to ban together to benefit themselves through cooperative-collaborative activity from those who don’t. I know what side I want to be on!
 * Cyberspace.  ****( **from [|Greek]  Κυβερνήτης  [ kybernētēs ] meaning "steersman", "governor", "pilot", or "rudder") is the global domain of electromagnetics as accessed and exploited through electronic technology and the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities.(Wikipedia)